Im pretty sure I just bent all of my intake valves....

I got a good deal on a 6al and figured that i would wire it in and see what happens, well i really didn't like it that much so acouple months ago i took it out and sold it to a firend of mine to put in the truck he was building, and just ran some new wires to the coil, well they didn't really work so well and caused the car to misfire everynow and then....so I finally just gave up and bought a new distributor.

The night before i got the distributor my girlfriend and I went out to dinner and drove home the car ran just fine... I came home and went to bed woke up the next day and put the distributor on went to start the car and nothing happend so i figured I put it on upside down since its an aftermarket one and not keyed like the factory one, I went to start it and nothing happened so I jacked the car up and put it at tdc and took the disributor off and put it where it would fire on the first cylinder, checked all the fuses and tried again....so after all that I looked at the timeing belt it was on and tight but the intake came was 180* the exhaust vavle....pimp I guess :werd:

I pulled the timeing belt off, adjusted the timeing so that it was correct, put a new timeing belt on and went to start the car, and still it wouldn't start...so i pulled out the compression tester....30, 60, 90, 150

Well I started trying to find valves yesterday but havn't had much success, the only ones that I can find are for a gs-r and supposibly the seats are different so does anyone know where I can find valves for a b18c5?

****cliff notes****
MSD sucked, rewired distirbutor, rewired distirbutor sucked, bought a new distributor, car wouldn't start, the timeing was off 180*, comression was 30, 60, 90, 120......I need new valves...and have had little to no luck finding them.

 

www.acuraautomotiveparts.org for OEM valves, otherwise you should be able to use valves for a B16...it shares the same head casting as the C5.

 

hey! thanks for the link! it's really useful!

 

Call Len at Baranco Acura for any parts you need. ITR/GSR/Si exhaust valves are all the same, but ITR intake valves are different from the other B series valves.

 

wow that sucks
good luck with the fix

 

"Master Yodub" thanks for the link Ive found that before but never bookmarked it...I asked my parents for a compressor for my birthday, were gonna go get it today so I can have my car by the end of this week I hope... YAY air tools!

 

so what caused the intake cam to be off?

 

I'm not sure what caused it to be offthe only viable explenation that i've heard was that the vafc malcunctioned when I was starting the car putting it into vtec but that still makes no since.

It works now I got new valves from honda and new omni power valve sprigns I wish I would have gotten the valves from them since they are cheaper then honda and flat rather than concave but I'm just glad i have my car back and running again, and I was able to fix it all by myself that made it kinda cool

 

I agree. That makes no sense at all. All the parameters aren't met at startup for the ecu to activate vtec.

Honda valves are very expensive. When I did my head, I went with ferrara valve because they were alot cheaper and the valve face is different from oem to help it flow better. Could be bs too.

 

with the vafc the ecu is bypassed so that it alone activates vtec solenoid the thing I don't understand is that there shouldn't be oil pressure to acutate the lifters on the third cam lobes.

I figure I'll keep the vtec controller on the car if it happens again I'll buy omni power valves which are alot cheaper than the oe honda ones, and quicker to get and a little better as the valve faces are flat to help raise the static compression.

I'm getting pretty good at pulling heads off cars and I have a second car so its no big deal!